Occupy Wonga pledged to ramp up its campaign against the payday lender in light of the revelation with a series of demonstrations against the company.

“It is criminal what they are doing,” said Occupy Wonga organiser Janie Mac.

She said Wonga’s “intimidation actions are no different from 40 years ago when loan lenders were knocking on council house doors on benefit day.”

Unite Community organiser Liane Groves called on the government to “bring in some proper regulation to stop Wonga “preying on the vulnerable” and “ripping people off” once more.
Forged legal threats are not the first controversy to hit Wonga.
Earlier this year the company, which counts the Church of England as one of its main shareholders, admitted to overcalculating balances of more than 200,000 customers.
In recent months both Wonga’s chief executive Niall Wass and its chairman and founder Errol Damelin have quit the company.